Instability of gravity wetting fronts for Richards equations with hysteresis

Interfaces and Free Boundaries

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 37-64

  Schweizer, Ben ^a  

^a TU DORTMUND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Capillarity; Hysteresis; Instability; Porous media; Richards equation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84861378285     PISSN: 14639963     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4171/IFB/273     Document Type: Article

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